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53 MEL-BULLETIN-53 Eng MEL BULLETIN 53 PROPOSALS FOR CATECHETICAL RENEWAL MEL BULLETIN N. 53 - December 2018 Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools Secretariat for Association and Mission Editor: Br. Nestor Anaya, FSC [email protected] Editorial Coordinators: Mrs. Ilaria Iadeluca - Br. Alexánder González, FSC [email protected] Service of Communications and Technology Generalate, Rome, Italy MEL BULLETIN 53 PROPOSALS FOR CATECHETICAL RENEWAL BROTHER ENRIQUE GARCÍA AHUMADA, FSC* 2018 * [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 8 CHAPTER I The SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL AND POST-CONCILIAR CATECheTICAL TEAChiNG 1.1. Basic Documents 11 1.2. The Mission of the Church is to Evangelize in order to Extend the Kingdom of God 12 1.3. Evangelizing Involves Four Stages 12 1.3.1. The Missionary Stage Prepares the First Christian Announcement 12 1.3.2. The Second Stage is a Brief proclamation of the Good News Calling for Conversion 14 1.3.3. Given Christian Kerygma, the Third Stage of Evangelization is Catechesis 18 1.3.3.1. The RCIA Indicates Three Liturgical Steps to Grow in Holiness 20 1.3.3.2. The Catechumenate is a Model of Initiation into the Christian Life 23 1.3.4. The Fourth Stage: Formation of the Community or Incorporation into the already existing one 25 1.3.4.1. Mystagogy 26 1.4. The Council Focuses the Ministry of the Word on the Bible and Tradition 30 4 1.4.1. Faith is a Response to the Revelation or Word of God 31 1.4.2. Prayer is Basically a Dialogue with the Word of God 31 1.4.3. The Main Manual of Catechesis is the Bible 33 1.4.4. God Entrusted Human Beings with the Care for Creation 36 1.4.5. The Disciple is a Missionary and a Servant of the World 39 1.5. The Council Demands Renewal of the Catechesis 40 1.5.1. The General Catechetical Directory of 1971 Guided the Renewal of Catechesis 40 1.5.2. Post-conciliar Catechesis Renews Liturgy 41 1.5.3. Social Catechesis Seeks to Transform Society through the Gospel 42 1.5.4. We must Update the Marian Catechesis 45 1.5.5. The General Directory for Catechesis Guides its Complete Renewal 46 1.5.6. The Council Explains the Evangelizing Mission of Education 47 1.5.6.1. Characteristics of School Religious Education 48 1.6. The Education of the Faith in Evangelii Gaudium 50 1.6.1. Good Communication as a Basis 51 1.6.2. The Indispensable Orthodoxy 52 1.6.3. The Importance of Pre-catechesis 52 5 1.6.4. Introducing the Kingdom of God as Fullness of Life for All 53 1.6.5. A Completely Kerygmatic Catechesis 54 1.6.6. The Mystagogical Catechesis 54 1.6.7. Faith and Beauty in Catechesis 55 1.6.8. Presenting Morality as Good News 56 1.6.9. A Catechesis that accompanies 56 1.6.10. The Social Message of the Gospel 57 CHAPTER II SOME FIELD RepORTS SUPPORTING The RENEWAL OF CATEChesis 2.1. Assessment on the Change of Era 59 2.2. A Great Catechetics Professor and Council Theologian 60 2.3. Some Forms of Catechesis with Catechumenal Inspiration 61 2.4. Pre-Council Institutes for the Training of Catechetics 63 2.5. The Catechumenate in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2010 64 2.6. The Latin American Popular Reading of the Bible 66 2.7. The Family Catechesis of Christian Initiation to Eucharistic Life 66 2.8. Development of the Catechumenate in Russia 71 6 CHAPTER III TO RENEW CATEChesis, IT IS NECessaRY TO CONTEMPLATE JesUS AS CATEChisT 3.1. Jesus is an Apostle 78 3.2. Jesus is a Witness of God 78 3.3. Jesus is a Communicator 79 3.4. Jesus Deepens the Teaching of the Bible 83 3.5. Jesus is a Prophet 84 3.6. Jesus is an Evangelizer 86 3.7. Jesus is a Teacher 87 3.8. Jesus Enculturates Revelation 92 3.9. Jesus is Mystagogue 94 3.10. Jesus Accompanies when Forming Disciples 95 3.11. Jesus is a Sacrament of Communion 95 EpiLOGUE 97 BROTheR ENRIQUE GARCÍA AHUMADA 100 7 INTRODUCTION Catechesis, the act of initiation and perfection into the Chris- tian life, is a ministry established by Jesus Christ when forming disciples. Without using the term catechesis, Saint John Baptist de La Salle considered it the main task of the family, the Christian school and the Church1. Thus, the present Rule of the Brothers of the Christian Schools - founded by him - says: “The life and the educational activity of the Brothers are an integral part of the Church’s work of evangelization. They believe that catechesis, as the Founder insisted, is ‘their prin- cipal function.’ This conviction determines their formation as well as the choice of tasks to which they may be assigned.”2. In addition, “The Brothers joyfully share the same mission together with their Partners who recognize and live the Lasallian charism.”3 In order to help understanding the need to renew our catechesis and offer ways to carry it out, this study offers: 1. The Second Vatican Council and Post-Conciliar Catechetical Teaching. 2. Some analyses and witnesses supporting the need for a renewal of catechesis. 3. Renewing catechesis through contemplation of Jesus as a catechist. 4. The catechist as seen by Saint John Baptist de La Salle. United in Jesus Christ with Mary, Joseph and De La Salle, Brother Enrique García Ahumada, FSC 1 Saint John Baptist de La Salle, RC 1.3-1.6.2.3). Rule and Foundational Documents, (RFD) Translated and edited by Augustine Loes, FSC, and Ronald Isetti, 2002 Lasallian Publications Christian Brothers Conference Landover, Maryland, USA found in https://www.lasallian.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Rule-and-Founda tional-Documents.pdf 2 Rule art.17. 3 R. 19. 9 CHAPTER I THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL AND POST-CONCILIAR CATECHETICAL TEACHING 1.1. Basic Documents The Magisterium of the Church since the Second Vatican Coun- cil is the sound basis to renew catechesis. In 1971, the Congre- gation for the Clergy published the General Catechetical Directory (GCD), as requested by Vatican II, greatly expanded and updated by the General Directory for Catechesis (GDC) in 1997, the year in which the corrected version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CEC, Catéchisme de l’Église Catolique) was published, as requested in the Synod of Bishops of 1985, whose first version dated 1992. In 1972, the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacra- ments published the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA), in Latin Ordo Initiationis Christianae Adultorum, (OICA)4. The Catechesis was renewed by the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhorta- tions Evangelii Nuntiandi (EN) of St. Paul VI in 1975 and Catechesi Tradendae (CT) of St. John Paul II in 1979. In 1983 the Code of Canon Law (CIC, Codex Iuris Canonici) applied this teaching to the ecclesial legislation, and it was followed by the Post-Synodal Exhortations Verbum Domini (VD) of His Holiness Benedict XVI in 2010 and Evangelii Gaudium (EG) of His Holiness Francis in 2013, as well as his Encyclical Laudato Si’ in 2015. Along with these important documents there are other regional documents of the ecclesial teachings5 which invite to a renewal. 4 Ritual of the Christian Initiation of Adults. (Rome 1972). 5 In addition to what was mentioned earlier concerning Latin America: Theological Concerns-FABC, The Spirit at Work in Asia Today, Samphran Thailand, May 1997, in Eilers FJ. (Ed.) For All the Peoples of Asia, Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, Documents from 1997-2001, Quezon City Philippines, Claretian Publications, 2002. Santedi Kinkupu, L. Nouvelle évangélisation et catéchèse dans la vista de l’Église famille of Dieu in Afrique, in: Routhier, G., Bressan, L., Vaccaro, L. (ed.). La catechesi e le sfide dell’evangelizzazione oggi. Brescia, Editrice Morcelliana, 2012, pp. 91-101. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Our Hearts were Burning within Us. A Pastoral Plan for Adult Faith Formation in the United States. Washington DC, Saddle Stitched Paperback, 1999. Katechese in veränderter Zeit. Bonn, Secretariat der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz, 2004. 11 1.2. The Mission of the Church is to Evangelize in order to Extend the Kingdom of God The Council teaches the essence of the Church in the Consti- tution Lumen Gentium (LG): “…the Church is in Christ like a sacrament or a sign and instrument both of a very closely knit union with God and of the unity of the whole human race” (LG 1). It explains its mission: “The mystery of the Holy Church is manifest in its very foundation. The Lord Jesus set it on its course by preaching the Good News; that is, the coming of the Kingdom of God, which, for centuries, had been promised in the Scriptures: ‘The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand’ (Mk 1:15, cf. Mt 4:17). From this source the Church, equipped with the gifts of its Founder and faithfully guarding His precepts of charity, humility and self-sacrifice, receives the mission to proclaim and to spread among all peoples, the Kingdom of Christ and of God and to be, on earth, the initial budding forth of that Kingdom” (LG 5). In turn, the Ad Gentes (AG) Decree explains the evangelizing action. 1.3. Evangelizing Involves Four Stages 1.3.1. The Missionary Stage Prepares the First Christian Announcement Before proclaiming the Kingdom of God, Jesus showed the love of God the Savior through facts. When he went to see him, Nico- demus said: “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God as a teacher, for no one can do these signs that you are doing unless God is with him.” (Jn 3:2) Prior to Jesus taking action, John the Baptist prepared the people (cf.
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